Microsoft is planning to kill off Paint after 32 years

[SecularMotion]

Source: The Guardian

Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update, called the Autumn (or Fall in the US) Creators Update, will bring a variety of new features. But one long-standing stalwart of the Windows experience has been put on the chopping block: Microsoft Paint.

First released with the very first version of Windows 1.0 in 1985, Paint in its various guises would be one of the first graphics editors used by many and became a core part of Windows. Starting life as a 1-bit monochrome licensed version of ZSoft’s PC Paintbrush, it wasn’t until Windows 98 that Paint could save in JPEG.

With the Windows 10 Creators Update, released in April, Microsoft introduced the new Paint 3D, which is installed alongside traditional Paint and features 3D image making tools as well as some basic 2D image editing. But it is not an update to original Paint and doesn’t behave like it.

Now Microsoft has announced that, alongside Outlook Express, Reader app and Reading list, Microsoft Paint has been signalled for death having been added to the “features that are removed or deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update” list.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/24/microsoft-paint-kill-off-after-32-years-graphics-editing-program

[Sedona]

1. Nooooooooo!

[get the red out]

6. Me too, NOOOOOOO!!!

Paint is quite useful!

[FakeNoose]

34. I use Paint all the time

I have to find a way to archive it, so when Microsoft deletes it I can reload it from my copy.

It's so great for cropping and resizing, converting to different formats, and other operations.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

38. Exactly... I agree. I still use paint for various things.

That sucks it is going away. Are they going to replace it with anything similar?

[dembotoz]

2. Rarely use paint but I found it useful a while back

Not really sure I remember how or why I used it, but I do remember I was sorta up shit Creek without it.

[dembotoz]

23. it was to resize something to fit into a thesis

worked like a charm

[Doug the Dem]

3. I'm Told it was Meadow Soprano who Ordered the Hit

Not surprising: she was cold enough to kill her own father, so Paint would be nuthin' to her!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Let me guess, when will Windows 10 be obsolete

I really am going to take the time to learn Linux Mint. I burned a boot/install disc,
and it is a nice smooth system, so on my aging Vista machine it will be a dual boot.

Setup for the Wifi will be a challenge, as will installing bookmarks. Finding time to do
these things is also a problem. But it is time to be more computer universal, adding
skills in Quickbooks, LibreOffice.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. And you can use gimp on Mint

which is very much photoshop competitive.

[Lars39]

5. I use Paint to occasionally touch up photos.

e.g.someone in a photo with a distracting logo t shirt, or a good photo but you want the focus to be on the person not the intruding stereo. I hope the new version at least allows that.

[airmid]

7. I use paint to clean up hand drawn pics to digitize for machine embroidery. It is the

cleanest program to use as it uses less resources than the other programs I own.

[Brainstormy]

8. I've always hated Outlook

But it'll miss Paint. a little.

[Achilleaze]

15. What email client do people use other than Outlook?

Mac Mail just basically kinda sucks. I use Thunderbird, which is free, but I have some issues with it. Maybe I should run everything through Gmail? What's best?

[dembotoz]

22. i use godaddy

they have 2 options one outlook and the other is not

outlook seems to have some size limits that i can not abide so i use the other option

[crazycatlady]

25. Gmail

Many companies also run email through gmail. It makes it a lot easier (google docs) than Microsoft.

[Brainstormy]

39. After trying just about everything

I'm Gmail all the way. I like the fact that, should I ever have the courage to trash Comcast, I've still got email. I LOVE the way it segregates promotional shit and spam-like stuff from my regular inbox and lets me decide what to read when I have time. (Normally I dump the whole mess.) I like not getting so many sidebar ads. I'm just a fan.

[Achilleaze]

40. Thanks

[Nitram]

9. Crappy application.

Good riddance. You can get better applications for free.

[keithbvadu2]

11. What are they? A lot of folks are going to be interested.

What are they? A lot of folks are going to be interested.

[Locrian]

18. paint.net

paint.net was created by a group at MS and is free. MUCH better than the anemic paint in windows.

https://www.getpaint.net/index.html

[hurple]

32. Paint.net

Is just a overlay for Paint, is it not?

IOW, it won't work without having Paint on the PC. If that is so, what happens to .net when Paint gets removed?

I use Paint.net almost exclusively these days. It is a major-awesome program.

[Thor_MN]

37. No. It is independant of Paint.

Paint is a program that can keep a 5 year old distracted for about 3 minutes, beyond that it doesn't have any useful features.

Hard to imagine anything being dependent on it's (lack of) features.

[Nitram]

20. Photo POS Pro

http://www.photopos.com/PPP3_BS/Default.aspx

[forgotmylogin]

21. The newest Paint is actually pretty good.

I used it to "oil paint" over a photo and it was surprisingly nuanced.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. They said the same about Windoze XP

and that is still humming along.

Although I have been a gimp user for some time (in both Linux and windoze), whenever I'm in windoze, Paint has been a simple and quick graphics editor.

[keithbvadu2]

13. W10 is a self-serving piece of crap. Overloaded with all-encompassing features.

W10 is a self-serving piece of crap. Overloaded with all-encompassing features.

My W7 computer is faster and more reliable than my W10 computer.

[El Mimbreno]

14. Not too crazy about W10 either

But better than W8. W10 has too much background shit eating up processor.

[Girard442]

28. Yeah, if I get a new computer, I'll think I'll install some different O/S.

Run Windows in a virtual machine if necessary.

[Celebration]

16. I use Paint all the time

What should I use?

[SecularMotion]

17. Would this work?

https://www.mitalia.net/irfanpaint/

Irfanview is a good low-resource image editor for Windows and it's free

http://www.irfanview.com/

[canetoad]

29. Yes, IrfanView is a fantastic program

And free.

I've used it for quick editing for over a decade. Crop, adjust colour, batch convert - indispensible for resizing for web & email. On top of this, Irfan seems like a great guy (from his website).

http://www.irfanview.com/

[Locrian]

19. paint.net

https://www.getpaint.net/index.html

About
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

[crazycatlady]

24. I'm glad my (new) computer has Paint

I had to put several screenshots of maps into a power point and Paint allows me to crop the images to fit.

I don't need photshop fancy, Paint does the trick.

[Mike Nelson]

26. Please say it isn't so...

...I use Paint to cut/paste photos into a collage... and resize photos. I will be lost without Paint!

[YOHABLO]

27. Why don't they put something in there great like a complete photo shop app.

I'm sick of Windows and I think I'll go Mac.

[47of74]

30. I used to use it quite a bit for work.

That was before I discovered the built in snipping tool. I still use Paint sometimes if I need to manipulate the image, but for the most part I just snip what I need without even using paint.

[hughee99]

31. I question the people who came up with the name "Windows 10 Fall"

If the roll out doesn't go well, they've already set up the jokes.

[xor]

33. I haven't used that much since the snipping tool in windows 8

Really only used paint to crop screenshots of the desktop.

[IcyPeas]

35. Paint.Net has some good youtube tutorials too

I also use MS Paint for the reasons some have mentioned above.

Gimp is quite advanced -- it is like photoshop.

Paint Net is an easier program. Similar to MS Paint but like a step up. Here's a link to the first in a series of videos:

[MineralMan]

36. i use Paint frequently. It's simple and meets my needs

adequately for most graphics editing. I will be sorry to see it go.

[Dave Starsky]

41. I just used it last night to sketch a quick diagram for someone.

I use it all the time at work for screen captures for the help desk folks (Ctrl+PrntScrn, Ctrl+V into Paint).

Yeah, there are other free programs out there, but I don't have the time to research them or learn how to use them.